Patents by Inventor Vishnu A. Patankar

Vishnu A. Patankar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Application identification and license enforcement
    Patent number: 7464270
    Abstract: The restriction of particular resources includes providing a digital signature for unauthorized resources based on a structure-related parameter of the resource. Thus, attempts at circumventing recognition of such resource will likely result in altering the overall functionality of the resource. Further, such digital signatures are encoded in a critical file required for loading of a resource, thus ensuring that the identity of the resource is considered before execution thereof. Enforcement of the resource restriction includes generating a verification signature for a resource that requests loading. The verification signature is compared to the signature coded into the critical file, and a positive match results in the resource being blocked from loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vishnu A. Patankar, Robert Reichel, John J. Lambert, Kedarnath A. Dubhashi, Jim E. Thatcher
  • Method and apparatus for configuring servers
    Patent number: 7454483
    Abstract: A process determines a role that a target server will perform. The process also identifies at least one security policy associated with the role. The target server is then configured to implement the identified security policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk Soluk, Praerit Garg, Vishnu A. Patankar, Jin Huang, Xiaohong Wu
  • Method and apparatus for configuring a server using a knowledge base that defines multiple server roles
    Patent number: 7231377
    Abstract: A process identifies multiple server roles and stores the server roles in a knowledge base. For each of the multiple server roles, the process identifies at least one service used by the server role, at least one communication port used by the server role, and any web-related requirements of the server role. This identified information regarding each of the server roles is stored in the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk Soluk, Vishnu A. Patankar, Hitesh Raigandhi, Nick Finco
  • Application identification and license enforcement
    Publication number: 20050021971
    Abstract: The restriction of particular resources includes providing a digital signature for unauthorized resources based on a structure-related parameter of the resource. Thus, attempts at circumventing recognition of such resource will likely result in altering the overall functionality of the resource. Further, such digital signatures are encoded in a critical file required for loading of a resource, thus ensuring that the identity of the resource is considered before execution thereof. Enforcement of the resource restriction includes generating a verification signature for a resource that requests loading. The verification signature is compared to the signature coded into the critical file, and a positive match results in the resource being blocked from loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Vishnu Patankar, Robert Reichel, John Lambert, Kedarnath Dubhashi, Jim Thatcher
  • Method and apparatus for configuring servers
    Publication number: 20040230639
    Abstract: A process determines a role that a target server will perform. The process also identifies at least one security policy associated with the role. The target server is then configured to implement the identified security policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirk Soluk, Praerit Garg, Vishnu A. Patankar, Jin Huang, Xiaohong Wu
  • Method and apparatus for configuring a server using a knowledge base that defines multiple server roles
    Publication number: 20040220894
    Abstract: process identifies multiple server roles and stores the server roles in a knowledge base. For each of the multiple server roles, the process identifies at least one service used by the server role, at least one communication port used by the server role, and any web-related requirements of the server role. This identified information regarding each of the server roles is stored in the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirk Soluk, Vishnu Patankar, Hitesh Raigandhi, Nick Finco